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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 3: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 1: Hope it gives your.

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Speaker 3: Perspective to see God is moving in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited. I've been waiting to share this word

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Speaker 3: with you this week. The Lord has been speaking to

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Speaker 3: us about new loops, same lies.

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Speaker 1: New loops.

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Speaker 3: Put my graphic on the screen so they can know

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Speaker 3: what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: It's important that in this season of.

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Speaker 3: Your life that you don't repeat the wrong things over

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Speaker 3: and over again. The victory and defeat in your life

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Speaker 3: is all a matter of what you put on repeat

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Speaker 3: in your mind and in your heart. How many have

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Speaker 3: found that to be true. And if you repeat the

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Speaker 3: wrong thing long enough, it starts to sound like it's

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Speaker 3: true even though it's not true. I'll always be my

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Speaker 3: mom was my sister. Is can't break this, I can't

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Speaker 3: deal with this. So when we say new loops, we're

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Speaker 3: talking about getting a new meditation in your heart that

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Speaker 3: comes from God. And we can't stop the enemy from lying.

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Speaker 3: But if we can teach you to identify when he's

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Speaker 3: doing it. And if we can teach you how to

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Speaker 3: tune into the voice of the Holy Spirit that is

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Speaker 3: speaking of truth over you, we can get you set

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Speaker 3: free in some areas of your life that you had

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Speaker 3: become convinced it always has to be this way. So

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Speaker 3: we're praying for new patterns. How many have been blessed

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Speaker 3: by the series so far? Amen, Today I want to

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Speaker 3: pick up with a scripture that is very powerful in

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Speaker 3: Second Kings chapter six, Praise the Lord. Second Kings chapter six.

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Speaker 3: I was thinking about this JJ.

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Speaker 4: Probably one of the coolest pictures that we get in

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Speaker 4: the whole Bible of when you feel overwhelmed and you

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Speaker 4: don't know what to do, one of.

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Speaker 3: The clearest pictures that we get of what to do.

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Speaker 3: And so this will help you today. Second Kings, chapter six.

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Speaker 3: Let me read the full story. Please start in verse.

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Speaker 1: Eight. Second Kings six, Verse A. Now, the King of

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Speaker 1: arab was at war with Israel.

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Speaker 3: After conferring with his officers, he said, I will set

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Speaker 3: up my camp in such and such a place. The

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Speaker 3: Man of God sent word to the King of Israel,

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Speaker 3: down there. So the King of Israel checked on the

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Speaker 3: place indicated by the Man of God. Time and again

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Speaker 3: Elisha warned the king so that he was on his

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Speaker 1: This enraged the King of Aram.

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Speaker 3: He summoned his officers and commanded of them, or demanded

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Speaker 3: of them, tell me which of us is on the

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Speaker 3: side of the King of Israel. None of us, my lord,

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Speaker 3: the king, said one of his officers. But Elisha, the prophet,

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Speaker 3: who is in Israel, tells the King of Israel the

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Speaker 3: very words you speak in your bedroom. Go find out

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Speaker 3: where he is, the king ordered, so I can send

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Speaker 3: men and capture him. And the report came back, he

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Speaker 3: by night and surrounded the city. Now verse fifteen, it

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Speaker 3: gets good. When the servant of the Man of God

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Speaker 3: my lord, what shall we do, the servant asked. And

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Speaker 3: prophet answered, don't be afraid, don't be afraid. What do

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Speaker 3: you mean, don't be afraid when we are surrounded on

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Speaker 3: every side. No, no, no, don't be afraid, because it cannot

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Speaker 3: see with your senses, don't be afraid. Those who are

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Speaker 3: in that good and Elisha pray, and Elisha prayed open

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Speaker 3: the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all

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Speaker 3: around Elisha. One more verse from Romans eight eighteen. King

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Speaker 3: James version, Please on the screen, for I reckon that

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Speaker 3: the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to

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Speaker 3: For I reckon I thought about it a little while

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Speaker 3: and I reckon that the sufferings of this present time,

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Speaker 3: that will be revealed in me. Now let me give

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Speaker 3: you my title. Turn to your neighbor and say, I

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Speaker 3: know it's crazy, but keep it in context. Keep it

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Speaker 3: in context, Keep it in context. Father, I pray that

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Speaker 3: you would illuminate what you're doing in our situation. Thank

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Speaker 3: you that you already were speaking while your word was

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Speaker 3: being read. Now make it so personal that people squirm

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Speaker 3: like has he been following me around this week?

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Speaker 1: Because you have been following them around this week.

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Speaker 3: Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days

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Speaker 3: of my life. Thank you for speaking. Lord in Jesus' name, Amen,

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Speaker 3: you may be seated in in the Bible. The kinds

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Speaker 3: of conversations that we get to hear are really crazy

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Speaker 3: if you step back and think about it. To get

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Speaker 3: to hear Elisha one of the greatest profits.

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Speaker 3: As he is dealing with the situation that is beyond

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Speaker 3: really an incredible masterclass for us in our minds. And

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Speaker 3: I think it's amazing in this conversation how the servant

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Speaker 3: wakes up and sees something that is so much bigger

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Speaker 3: than him and the prophet essentially says, don't make it

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Speaker 3: And in every marriage there's one person who makes things

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Speaker 3: ahead and give you a framework for my marriage. Did

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Speaker 3: you see the movie Inside Out? Did you see Inside Out?

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Speaker 3: Our family went to see Inside Out too, because in

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Speaker 3: Inside Out, the little girl has all these emotions and

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Speaker 3: And so you've got sadness and disgust and joy and

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Speaker 3: So we went to see the movie this summer, and

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Speaker 3: to my mind, the restaurant being closed is an unacceptable

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Speaker 3: to respond in a terrible way. If I respond in

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Speaker 3: to humble myself and apologize. And so as I'm going

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Speaker 3: back and forth with Holly in the car, driving to

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Speaker 3: the restaurant that might be closed, not is closed, might

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Speaker 3: Now in the passage that I read to you, it's

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Speaker 3: literally like watching a conversation between the wisdom of the

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Speaker 3: who has never faced a situation like this before. I've

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Speaker 3: the miraculous conservation of the scriptures and inside and in

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Speaker 3: some ways candid seat to this conversation, and the prophet says.

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Speaker 1: Don't make it bigger than it is. Now.

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Speaker 3: That's a crazy thing to say when you're surrounded by

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Speaker 3: horses and cheriots. Because whatever it is that you're going

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Speaker 3: through today, in your life, It's not this. Can we

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Speaker 3: all agree it's not this. This man is a national

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Speaker 3: security threat, it's not this. They're not all coming to

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Speaker 3: that it is so. In our relationship, Holly is always

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Speaker 3: the one who says it's not a big deal. Even yesterday,

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Speaker 3: I was preparing this message for you, and as I

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Speaker 3: looking for an illustration to talk about how sometimes my

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Speaker 3: mind tries to make it bigger than it is, and

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Speaker 3: she started texting me about a flight delay. Now she's

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Speaker 3: it's not fine, because why do they always just get

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Speaker 3: to delay our flights whenever they want to. Somebody needs

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Speaker 3: This is unfair, This is unjust, This is actually this

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Speaker 3: is actually bigger than just your flight today, Holly. This

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Speaker 3: is actually a way that they're treating consumers that is unacceptable.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you paid for the ticket. This is not

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Speaker 3: somebody who was like, is not a big deal? Into

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Speaker 3: a Oh yes, it is a big deal situation, and

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Speaker 3: that's me and her. I'm outraged. She's drinking Starbucks for her,

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Speaker 3: it's extra time for me. It is a travesty of travel, justice, anxiety,

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Speaker 1: See here's the thing I found out.

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Speaker 3: When a flight gets delayed for me, my mind opens

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Speaker 3: a file. Write this down. My mind has files. Did

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Speaker 3: you know that your mind has files? And so when

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Speaker 3: mind called every time a flight got delayed and then

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Speaker 3: got delayed again, and then got delayed again. So when

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Speaker 3: she said my flight is delayed, she's like, it's fine.

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Speaker 3: That's her file. Holly has this huge file called is fine,

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Speaker 3: It'll be fine. It's gonna be fine. If the restaurant

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Speaker 3: isn't open, it'll be fine. We're not gonna starve, it'll

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Speaker 3: it's fine. It's been fine so many times before. There

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Speaker 3: is going to be absolutely fine that the flight is delayed,

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Speaker 3: because we can still get there because I built in buffer.

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Speaker 1: But I'm thinking, no, this.

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Speaker 3: Is just the first in a series of horrible things.

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Speaker 3: And I go back to when we went to Atlanta

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Speaker 5: Because I got a file for that.

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Speaker 3: Your mind has a file called worry, your mind has

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Speaker 1: Why? Because I don't really want to hear about somebody

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Speaker 1: Just so you can get offended.

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Speaker 3: don't remember my middle child's name? Because he wants to

438
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Speaker 3: help you fill the wrong file.

439
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Speaker 1: He wants to.

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Speaker 3: Help you fill the file call I'm all alone. I

441
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 3: love what the prophet Elisha said. He didn't minimize what

442
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Speaker 3: the enemy meant. He just helped multiply the help that

443
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Speaker 3: they already had.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you notice this.

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Speaker 3: But the Bible says in verse seventeen that Elisha prayed,

446
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Speaker 3: but he prayed something very specific, didn't he He didn't

447
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 3: pray for God to send help because the help was

448
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 3: already there. I feel like taking my shoes off in

449
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 3: pre sure. I feel like there is somebody listening to

450
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:33,439
Speaker 3: me preaching today who doesn't understand that your help is

451
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 3: already here. And you keep asking for God to send help.

452
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 3: You keep asking God to send something. But today, let's

453
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 3: change your prayer a little bit. Somebody pray to say, God,

454
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Speaker 3: show me something. Show me something that is already in

455
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 3: my life. Show me something that you already did. Show

456
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Speaker 3: me something that I forgot about that would cause me

457
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 3: to know that you are greater than what I'm going through.

458
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 3: You are greater than what I've been through. You are

459
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 3: greater than the uncertainty that I face. God, show me something.

460
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 3: Prayed again, God, show me something. He did not pray

461
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Speaker 3: for God to send horses and chariots. It would have

462
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 3: been redundant. God had already sent them. I believe that

463
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Speaker 3: before the enemy showed up, God did. I believe that

464
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 3: before the devil started messing with your life, God was

465
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 3: making a masterpiece of your life. The Bible says that

466
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Speaker 3: before you were born, he formed you in your mother's womb.

467
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 3: He knew you, so before the attack ever happened. I

468
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Speaker 3: don't know who needs to hear this, but before the

469
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Speaker 3: attack ever happened, the angels were already assigned. God is

470
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 3: busy in your situation. God is busy in your life.

471
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 3: God is setting up camp. And if the enemy sent

472
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Speaker 3: a strong force, that means you represent a significant threat

473
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Speaker 3: to Hell. So stop thinking that the reason is hard

474
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Speaker 3: for you is because there's something wrong with you. The

475
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 3: reason is hard for you is because there is something

476
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 3: great in you, something amazing in you, something designed about you,

477
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:23,959
Speaker 3: something wired about you. Remember Elisha was surrounded because he

478
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Speaker 3: was successful. He was so good at doing his job

479
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Speaker 3: for God. He was so good at prophesying. He was

480
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 3: so being used by God that the enemy said, we've

481
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 3: got to surround him with something to stop him. But

482
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Speaker 3: the good news is.

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Speaker 1: Before the enemy ever sent an assignment to stop.

484
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Speaker 3: Him, God sent the help to support him. So keep

485
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Speaker 3: it in context. I know it's crazy in your life

486
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 3: right now. Keep it in context. I know it's weird

487
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 3: in your world right now, but keep it in context.

488
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 3: I know not everybody is nice to you, but keep

489
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 3: it in context. Not everybody is mean to you. Keep

490
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 3: it in context. I know there are some struggles in

491
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Speaker 3: your life.

492
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Speaker 1: Who of us doesn't have something that we need to fix.

493
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Speaker 1: Look how far you've come.

494
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Speaker 3: I mean, did you really even think you would be

495
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 3: in church today.

496
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Speaker 1: Keep it in context.

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Speaker 3: I know there's some stuff you're fighting at home, but

498
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 3: you are here right now, so keep it in context.

499
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Speaker 3: If the enemy can't get you fixated on one situation

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Speaker 3: in your life, he will get you fixated on one

501
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 3: flaw in yourself. So Elisha does not give him an

502
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 3: elimination of the enemy. Instead, he gives him an illumination

503
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 3: of his health. Now I want to share my favorite

504
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Speaker 3: verse with you, my favorite verse today. It says in

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Speaker 3: first John four four that ye are of God little children,

506
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Speaker 3: and have overcome them, because greater.

507
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Speaker 1: Is he.

508
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Speaker 3: That is in you than he that is in the world.

509
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 3: So this is how it feels. Right. Oh, no, Lord,

510
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 3: we are surrounded. What am I going to do about?

511
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 3: This is coming in from every side, and it is

512
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Speaker 3: the pressure of an attack that hasn't happened yet. But

513
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 3: might I want to speak about that for a moment.

514
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 3: Some of you are suffering under the pressure of an

515
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 3: attack that hasn't even happened yet, but it might. And

516
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 3: the devil hasn't even done it to you yet, and

517
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 3: you are already giving him the permission to fill the

518
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 3: file in your mind as if he did. You are

519
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 3: already living the injury as if it happened. You are

520
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 3: already limping from a.

521
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: Blow that the devil hasn't even struck yet.

522
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 3: You are already giving away this moment in your life

523
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 3: because the enemy surrounded you. He didn't defeat him, He

524
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 3: just surrounded him. And when you feel surrounded by the enemy,

525
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Speaker 3: I want you to begin to understand.

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Speaker 1: First John four, verse four. Oh, I love this verse, bro.

527
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Speaker 3: Because it gets the idea you are of God little children,

528
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Speaker 3: and it helps me understand why I feel so little

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Speaker 3: in the face of my enemy. But then it says

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Speaker 3: something that is very important. It says you have overcome them,

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Speaker 3: because greater is he that is in me than he

532
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Speaker 3: that is in the world. And Elisha prayed, not God

533
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Speaker 3: shrink my enemy, but he prayed instead God opened his

534
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 3: eyes to see that what is surrounding him.

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Speaker 1: You are.

536
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Speaker 3: Surrounding it.

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Speaker 5: LJ.

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Speaker 3: Hold me down, because if it's me versus the enemy,

539
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 3: I'm in trouble. If it's me versus this addiction is over.

540
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 3: If it's me versus this depression, I'm not going to take.

541
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Speaker 1: A pill strong enough.

542
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 3: If it's me versus this season of my life, I

543
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 3: don't have the wisdom for it. If it's me versus

544
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,479
Speaker 3: the enemy, I'm outnumbered. But first John four y four said,

545
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 3: greater is he that is in me. So I've been

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Speaker 3: looking at the enemy, and I've been defeated because that's

547
00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 3: all I see. But I found out that greater is

548
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 3: he that is in me. And when I remember who

549
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 3: he is, and what he did, and what he gade me,

550
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 3: and what I have in him, my enemy is just

551
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 3: so big anymore. Because I lit my eyes to the

552
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 3: heels from which cometh my health.

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Speaker 5: My health cometh from the Lord, the Manger of Heaven

554
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 5: and earth. And greater is he that.

555
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 3: Is in me. So it's not me versus my enemy,

556
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 3: it's the one who is versus my enemy. This changes

557
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 3: everything because it opens a brand new file in my mind.

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00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 3: It lets me recognize that even if I'm surrounded with

559
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 3: no way out, and even if I'm pressed, hard pressed,

560
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,719
Speaker 3: even if I'm crushed, even if I'm persecuted, even if

561
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 3: I'm abandoned, even if I'm broke, even if I'm down,

562
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Speaker 3: even if I'm suffocating, even if one thing is piling

563
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 3: up on another, even if my boss hates me, even

564
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 3: if my employees hate me, even if I don't want

565
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 3: to do it, even if I feel lazy, even if

566
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 3: I don't have what it takes. The one who is

567
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:34,919
Speaker 3: in me is greater than what's against me. So it's

568
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 3: not that it's not big. It's just that I found

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00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 3: something bigger. You're a big boy, unless we put you

570
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Speaker 3: next to something bigger. That's all Elisha did. He say, Hey,

571
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 3: this is big. Tell somebody this is big. But there's

572
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 3: something bigger. It's the purpose of God. So keep it

573
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 3: in context. Paul said, I reckon that the sufferings of

574
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 3: this present time aren't even worth comparing to the glory

575
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 3: that will be revealed in us. What is happening to

576
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 3: me is not even worth comparing to the glory that

577
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 3: will be revealed in me. When Paul says, I reckon,

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Speaker 3: thank you so much. You did a great job. I

579
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 3: love you too. Just remember that when the devil picks on,

580
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 3: you find something that's bigger.

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Speaker 1: That's all Elishah did.

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Speaker 3: He said, open his eyes to see something bigger. And

583
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 3: could it be that the pain in your life right

584
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 3: now is a part of a bigger context that you

585
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 3: can't understand right now, and that this is the reason

586
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 3: that the enemy has come after you in full force.

587
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 3: Is because there is something bigger that God is trying

588
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 3: to do. Paul said, I reckon that word does not

589
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 3: mean I know. It means I am convinced of this opinion.

590
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 3: I can't prove it, but I reckon that when I

591
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 3: see what God is going to do through this situation,

592
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 3: it will make what I went through to get to

593
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:22,760
Speaker 3: it seems small in comparison. And that's a decision of faith,

594
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 3: my friend. And if you want to open a file

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00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 3: in your mind today of all the ways that God

596
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 3: could use this situation, if you want to open a

597
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 3: file in your mind today of all the ways that

598
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 3: God could turn this around. God has a thousand creative

599
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 3: ways to use this right.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't think it was.

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00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 3: I don't think it was coincidental where Elisha was sit

602
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 3: down and I got something else to tell you, because

603
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 3: there's something I learned two years ago that I have

604
00:36:58,640 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 3: been waiting to share.

605
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:02,959
Speaker 1: And in this passage, it says that.

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00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 3: Elisha kept telling his king Jorham where the enemy was

607
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 3: going to attack him. So the enemy came to attack

608
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 3: Elisha so that he could attack the nation. It was

609
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 3: a bigger context. The devil isn't just attacking you. He's

610
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 3: attacking everyone that your life is supposed to impact, and

611
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 3: figures that if he can get you to give up

612
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 3: right here, you won't get to make a generational impact.

613
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 3: So when you're fighting him, realize you're fighting for your

614
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 3: family too, and keep it in context.

615
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor. I know it's hard, but keep it

616
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: in context.

617
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 3: Tell him it's not just about you give them deep

618
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 3: penetrating eye contact. When you say that part. It is

619
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 3: not just about you. Put that into comments. It is

620
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 3: not just about me, Because there's a lesson in this

621
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 3: that it was not only who said don't be afraid

622
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 3: Elisha the prophet, but where he said it. See in

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Speaker 3: Second Kings six thirteen, they were looking all around for Elisha,

624
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 3: and they said in verse thirteen, go find out where

625
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 3: he is so I can send men and capture him.

626
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: And the report came back, he is in Dothan.

627
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 3: Now, I almost called this sermon the Devil went down

628
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 3: to Dothan. I thought that would be a cool thing

629
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,720
Speaker 3: to call it, but I knew it could also be corny,

630
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 3: and I didn't want to take the risks, so I

631
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,879
Speaker 3: just called it. Keep it in context, you know, when

632
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 3: you read the Bible, there's a specific place and time,

633
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,360
Speaker 3: the geography. All of these details in the Bible carry

634
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 3: rich meaning. And the place called Dothan is not a

635
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 3: very famous place in the Bible. In fact, it is

636
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 3: only mentioned twice in all of scripture. This is once

637
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 3: and another occurrence is found one thousand years earlier. There

638
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 3: was a dysfunctional family in the Book of Genesis, a

639
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:10,919
Speaker 3: dad named Jacob who had a son that he really

640
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:14,320
Speaker 3: loved named Joseph. One day he sent his son, Joseph,

641
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,760
Speaker 3: who was the son of the wife that he loved,

642
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 3: to go check on his other brothers. And he had

643
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 3: given him an amazing coat. And his brothers not only

644
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 3: hated his coat, I think they really began to despise

645
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 3: the destiny that was on his life. So while his

646
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 3: brothers were hurting sheep, Joseph was for some reason at home,

647
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 3: being young as he was, and his dad said, go

648
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 3: check on your brothers. This is in the Book of

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Speaker 3: Genesis chapter thirty seven. And he went to a place

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Speaker 3: called Shechem, where he expected to find them tending the sheep,

651
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,800
Speaker 3: but they weren't there. And we pick up the story

652
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 3: in Genesis chapter thirty seven, verse sixteen, He told the men,

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Speaker 3: I'm looking for my brothers.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?

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Speaker 3: Now, the response that came next would have been a

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Speaker 3: story that Elisha the prophet would have been familiar with,

657
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Speaker 3: because when he said where are they, the man answered,

658
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Speaker 3: they have moved on from here. I heard them say,

659
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Speaker 3: let's go to Dothan. So Joseph went after his brothers

660
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Speaker 3: and found them near Dothan. This is the only other

661
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Speaker 3: time in the Bible that Dothan is mentioned.

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Speaker 1: It is only mentioned.

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Speaker 3: Twice, and this is one of them. So he goes

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Speaker 3: to Dothan to find his brothers. But look what verse

665
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Speaker 3: eighteen says. They saw him in the distance, and before

666
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Speaker 3: he reached them, they plotted to kill him. And they

667
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Speaker 3: took Joseph, and just as they were about to kill him,

668
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Speaker 3: Ruben said, let's don't do it, And so they decided

669
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Speaker 3: to throw him in a cistern in Gothan, and they

670
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Speaker 3: put him in.

671
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Speaker 1: The cistern, not sure what.

672
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Speaker 3: To do lunch, when just about that time, a caravan

673
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Speaker 3: of Ishmaelite traders were well, let me just show you

674
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Speaker 3: this on the map real quick.

675
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Speaker 1: Just about the time that they were having their lunch.

676
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Speaker 3: You see that red line where Joseph started out that day,

677
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Speaker 3: and he goes all the way up to a place

678
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 3: on the map called Dothan.

679
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Speaker 1: And when he.

680
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,919
Speaker 3: Gets to Dothan, his brothers try to kill him because

681
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Speaker 3: they're envious of him, and they don't get him. And

682
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Speaker 3: so just as they're about to kill and one of

683
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Speaker 3: the brothers cries out and says, no, let's don't kill him.

684
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Speaker 3: Let's just put him in this cistern. So they leave

685
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Speaker 3: him in the cistern, perhaps to leave him for dad,

686
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Speaker 3: to hide him from the father.

687
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Speaker 1: What are we gonna do? But just at that.

688
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 3: Time, you see that blue line that comes down right there,

689
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Speaker 3: and it kind of matches up with the red line.

690
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Speaker 1: You see the one that comes up from top.

691
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Speaker 3: That's the caravan that was coming through, the Ishmaelite caravan

692
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 3: that was coming through. And just about the time they're

693
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Speaker 3: coming through and Joseph is in a cistern, one of

694
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Speaker 3: Joseph's brothers named Judas, says, hey, what if instead of

695
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 3: killing him, what if we sell him this sea seems

696
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Speaker 3: to be.

697
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Speaker 1: An opportune time.

698
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 3: The caravan is coming right now, Joseph is in the cistern,

699
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,240
Speaker 3: if we sell him right now, we can profit twenty

700
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 3: shekels off of him and we don't have to kill him.

701
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 3: And so Joseph is sold into slavery right but he

702
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 3: is also sent to be a deliverer for his family

703
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 3: in Egypt. And both are true, and both happened in Dothan.

704
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,240
Speaker 3: It was in Dothan that they tried to take his life.

705
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:33,479
Speaker 5: It was in.

706
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 3: Dothan that God stopped it. It was in Dothan that

707
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Speaker 3: he was sold into slavery.

708
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: It was in.

709
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 3: Dothan that he was positioned to be a deliverer. It

710
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 3: was in Dothan that he got in the right cart

711
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 3: at the right time, so that he could be positioned

712
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 3: in the right house, so that he could have the

713
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 3: right answer when the famine came to Egypt, when the

714
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 3: famine came to the whole world, so that his family,

715
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 3: who had tried to kill him would come to him,

716
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Speaker 3: so that he would have the bread that they needed

717
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 3: in the season that they never saw coming. And all

718
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 3: of that happened in Dothan, because I'm trying to tell

719
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 3: you that God does stuff in Dothan, See don't. It

720
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 3: is a place you might not have chosen Don'tan is

721
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 3: a place you might not like. Don't it is a

722
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 3: place you might not have voted to go. Dothan can

723
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 3: be a scary place. Don't It is a place where

724
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:33,240
Speaker 3: you can feel surrounded. But Dothan is a place where

725
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 3: God will send the right car, the right person, the

726
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 3: right thing, the right idea, the right redemption, the right

727
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,280
Speaker 3: opportunity at the right tide.

728
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,959
Speaker 5: Us store the right one becaus I hand. The God

729
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 5: is on you, and it's always been on you. And

730
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 5: you will not die in Dothan.

731
00:43:55,640 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 3: You will not die in Dothan. You can't die in Dothan.

732
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 3: And Elisha had a file in his mind. When he

733
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 3: saw the chariots surrounding him in Dothan, he thought back,

734
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 3: I remember somebody who was in Dothan and it looked

735
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 3: like it was over. And his mind went to a

736
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 3: file from a thousand years ago that if God brought

737
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 3: Joseph to Egypt to save Israel through a place called Dothan,

738
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 3: He's gonna do something in my situation right here.

739
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:32,479
Speaker 5: Right now.

740
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 3: And I need one hundred glad people to shout about

741
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:36,879
Speaker 3: the fact that.

742
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 5: God will not let you die in Dothan.

743
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 3: I had to get an attitude with the enemy, and

744
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 3: tell him there's more in me.

745
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 5: Greater is he who is in me.

746
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 3: What I'm going through right now is nothing compared to

747
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 3: the glory that will be revealed in And if you

748
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 3: have faith to say it right now, say I've got

749
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 3: more in me.

750
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 5: I've gotten more in me. I've got more love in

751
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 5: me than i've God hated me. I've got more good

752
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 5: days ahead of me. I've got more dreams in me

753
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 5: that I have disappointment.

754
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 3: I know it's odd to preach off of a map,

755
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 3: but if you look at that map one more time,

756
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 3: it will remind you of the lesson of Elisha, who said,

757
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,439
Speaker 3: don't even worry about it. Keep it in context. There's

758
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 3: more with us than against us. It will remind you

759
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 3: of Joseph that said you meant it for evil, but God.

760
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: Meant it for good.

761
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 3: It will remind you if you look at Dopton for

762
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 3: a moment.

763
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: You'll see that it's just a dot. It's not a destiny.

764
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 3: And that little dot was a place where the most

765
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 3: horrible thing happened to Joseph. I'm sure he never fully

766
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 3: recovered from what happened, but he was restored enough from

767
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 3: what happened to move forward in the revelation of who

768
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 3: God was. And that is what I am trying to

769
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 3: say to you is that if you if you let

770
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 3: this dot define you, this hard thing define you, this

771
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 3: dothn define you, you got to remember that there's always

772
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 3: more in me than against me, because God is in me.

773
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 3: So what could I go through that would be greater

774
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 3: than His plan for me? And if you keep this

775
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 3: in context, you can say, like.

776
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: Paul, I reckon. Tell your neighbor, I reckon.

777
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 3: Because I recognize because I lift.

778
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 5: My eyes.

779
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 3: And I see help in the hills, and I am

780
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 3: reminded that before my heart was filled with fear, the

781
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:16,240
Speaker 3: hills were filled with my help because He is my help.

782
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 3: And it was so good when God gave it to me.

783
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 3: He said, this is just a dot in your life.

784
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 3: This is just a dot in your life. I'm coming

785
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:32,879
Speaker 3: to this side. I feel pulled to this side. I'm

786
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 3: gonna keep my shoes on and come over here. It's

787
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 3: a dot in your life. Put it back up there.

788
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,720
Speaker 3: It is a dot. He could not die there because

789
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:42,919
Speaker 3: he had more to do.

790
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 1: God is not done with you.

791
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 3: God is not finished with you. And I reckon. I

792
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 3: reckon the season of suffering in your life is just

793
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:03,399
Speaker 3: a dot. Hardest men for you. I've been hearing about it.

794
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 3: I know that some days it's all you can do,

795
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 3: and everybody's saying how positive you are, and sometimes you

796
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 3: feel like, well, who's gonna encourage me? But in light

797
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 3: of what God is doing through you, this is.

798
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:16,439
Speaker 1: Just a dot.

799
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 3: It's not even worth comparing the way that God is

800
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,839
Speaker 3: using your life. Do you not understand that your testimony

801
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 3: is changing grown men's lives. They are hearing about your

802
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 3: faith and your perseverance and what you are going through.

803
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,879
Speaker 6: Although it is difficult. It is a dot. God is

804
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 6: not through with you, because the.

805
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 3: Devil went down to Dothan, but God got there first.

806
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 3: I'm closing. I'm closing, but just to remind somebody that

807
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 3: God got their verse before the enemy was visible. God

808
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 3: was there invisible, and He is in your situation, and

809
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 3: He is in your struggle. And God is not surprised.

810
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 3: And this is just a dot because greater is He

811
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 3: that is in me than any enemy that is against me.

812
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 3: And I got a file in my mind called it's

813
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 3: not fine, but He's faithful.

814
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 1: Let's open that file for a moment. Today, What.

815
00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:59,400
Speaker 3: Would it look like for you to open the file

816
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 3: in your mind to just reframe your situation with the

817
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 3: faithfulness of God. For all the Dothans that you thought

818
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 3: you wouldn't survive, how many have already seen a few

819
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:14,320
Speaker 3: Dothans come and go, But God stay faithful. Raise your hand,

820
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 3: jump up on your feet, now waive in me if

821
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:21,479
Speaker 3: God has been faithful to you up until this point

822
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 3: in your life, and now clap your hands and thank

823
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 3: Him that he did it, that he.

824
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 5: Left you with.

825
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,279
Speaker 1: So ruth.

826
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,320
Speaker 3: Dothan is a place where you can admit it's both

827
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 3: I'm surrounded and I'm secure.

828
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 1: Because I keep it in context.

829
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 3: When you begin to praise God for his faithfulness, you

830
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:55,800
Speaker 3: shrink the enemy.

831
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: And he has no power over you.

832
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:01,800
Speaker 3: When you begin to open up your mind and say, God,

833
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 3: I've seen good days and bad days.

834
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 1: God.

835
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 3: I've seen times when I thought I wouldn't make it,

836
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 3: but I did.

837
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:11,479
Speaker 1: God.

838
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 3: I've seen how You've used things in my life that

839
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 3: I never would have imagined to open doors I never

840
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 3: even knew to pray for God, I'm praying that.

841
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 1: Right now, this.

842
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 3: Moment in my life, this dot on the map of

843
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 3: your mission and your purpose for me would not define me.

844
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 1: Father.

845
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 3: I pray for those today who have felt in their

846
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 3: hearts and in their spirits like this is the end.

847
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 3: I agree with your truth concerning them, that it is

848
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 3: nothing compared to the glory that you will reveal in them.

849
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 3: I thank you for what you're doing in their life.

850
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 3: Even now, you're developing fruit and character and maturity, and

851
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 3: you will not leave them alone in Dothan. God, I

852
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 3: thank you for the moments that you showed up for

853
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:00,839
Speaker 3: me in Dothan. I was surrounded, didn't know what to do.

854
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 3: I couldn't understand it, but you put it in context,

855
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:08,280
Speaker 3: and you reminded me that not only are you faithful

856
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 3: and not only are you good, but you can get

857
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 3: glory out of any situation.

858
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:13,800
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.

859
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:15,799
Speaker 3: I thank you Lord that you're getting glory out of

860
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 3: my situation right now, even if it doesn't feel good

861
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,800
Speaker 3: to me, you're getting glory out of my situation right now.

862
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 3: I thank you that I'm going to turn around and

863
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 3: encourage others with the hope that you encouraged me with.

864
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:30,720
Speaker 3: I thank you, Lord that you're making me more graceful

865
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 3: toward others because of the grace that you've given me,

866
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 3: and now just slip both of your hands up in

867
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 3: the air in this moment and lift your eyes to

868
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:51,319
Speaker 3: the hills where your help comes from. And know in

869
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 3: this moment that whatever is surrounding you, your God is

870
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,359
Speaker 3: surrounding it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord, Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to

873
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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